They’ve always had women and gay writers. In their heyday, the “Playboy Interview” was the gold standard of journalistic interviews. They’ve always taken liberal political stances (including on women’s rights and lgbt rights). The publisher was a woman for over 20 years (Christie Hefner).

Eh, for the inverse take... NASCAR pit stops are boring and a bit stupid because they’re a deliberate contrivance. There’s no need for them not to use center lugs other than a disingenuously performative “look at us we’re old school” moment. For a sport that has teams literally making body damage worse on purpose for…

I agree, the manual (and auto) GT cars are actually acting like brand value advertising. You get all of these crazy passionate owners to buy a few and then they all go crazy trying to buy them from each other. Then when you release a new model, they all fight for the few again. Then when they can’t get the special GT…

Oh yeah...when I read the story, it made me remember the old episodes of Beavis and Butthead. Specifically, when the Milli Vanilli or Vanilla Ice videos would play, and they would just look at each other, not say a word, and then change the channel. It’s more insulting to say nothing than to rip it apart.

Ferrari definitely messed up not to double stack under the safety-car, but what also should be mentioned: Red Bull’s beautiful demolition of Ferrari’s strategy by surprise-pitting Gasly early, right after his overtake on Vettel. Ferrari had to react by pitting their lead car out of fear of being undercut, and Red…

I’d really like to see a ban on power tools during pit stops. You have to jack up the car with a hand jack, unscrew the lug nuts by hand, replace the wheel, and then use a hand torque wrench to replace the lugs. For maximum fun, mandate that a car can only have one set of wheels per race, so new tires have to be…